20/08/2022
ABOUT THE ROAD TO RIGHTS
The Road to Rights is an award-winning youth-led voluntary organization established in 2009 in Sri Lanka by the evolution of a childhood dream, to serve humanity from the age of 8, aimed at supporting and empowering young people on creating opportunities, skills development, creativity, and innovation by taking a human rights-based approach towards peace and sustainable development. The Road to Rights is working on empowering youth, children, and women through various forms of activities and creating awareness, promoting advocacy for the communities through community and social development programs including open forums, Conferences, Workshops, Capacity building programs, and social media campaigns to ensure peace and development.
The organization was recognized and awarded in various international and local platforms including the United Nations SDG Action Award out of 125 countries in 2018 in Germany, and the International Human Rights Hero Award in 2012 in Belgium. national campaign on SDGs and the largest undergraduate platform dedicated towards SDGs in Sri Lanka; G17 University Ambassadors Consortium are remarkable initiatives of The Road to Rights. Sport and Art programs are two major programs that road to rights is working on engaging people to educate them on their rights, responsibilities and empower them through activities. Purposeful Play, Senses, and Soul, iLead, YouthVote, Human Rights Friendly Cities, Rock the City, Green Girls are a few campaigns of the road to rights to address different social issues in achieving peace and development.
G17 UNIVERSITY AMBASSADORS CONSORTIUM
G17 University Ambassadors Consortium is a global fellowship program initiated by the award-winning The Road to Rights organization in the year 2021, with its ultimate vision to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development within the university community. Therefore, this will be on progress up until 2030 under the decade of action where every year G17 will recognize 17 individuals from each university across the globe to become young Ambassadors through a one year long experiential leadership program with its various activities. G17 is dedicated towards empowering university undergraduates on Sustainable Development Goals to become the next generation of young professionals and make SDGs a reality through its four pillars: Capacity Building, Leadership, Policy Advocacy, and Action.